The lawsuit, filed by South Carolina mom Holly Ricketson, alleges that on or around November 11, she purchased one of those Wicked dolls for her young daughter and was shocked when her child showed her the Wicked.com site which, she says, "pasted scenes of pornographic advertisements across her phone screen." She claims her child was exposed to full-on nude sex scenes.
Mattel issued a recall of the dolls but didn't offer a refund. By explicitly advertising the toys to children aged as young as four, the lawsuit alleges the company neglected its duty to produce an appropriate product, packaging and all.
While Mattel appears to want to separate the packaging from the actual product, in terms of what the company is actually selling to children, there may be another way out of culpability.
Mattel argued that erroneously including a porn website on its packaging 'in no way impacts the value or play experience provided by the product itself in the limited number of units sold before the correction.'
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